Stand 11 — Development — World Combat Games — 2023

A rectangular stand with white photographs and text on a red and blue background. At the top of the stand is an inscription in English: «Sambo for the Blind. From the first training to the World Championship.» Then, at the left edge of the stand in a green rectangular area: «Development.» Then below: «2023 World Combat Games. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For the first time, wrestlers with disabilities took part in the World Combat Games. And they were blind sambists.» Below, at the left edge of the stand, is a large photograph of blind wrestlers, prize winners and medalists of the Games. Sambo wrestlers from Moldova, Venezuela, Russia and Georgia are standing on the podium facing the camera. To the right and left of the athletes: President of the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Vasily Shestakov and Chairman of the FIAS Commission on Athletes with Disabilities Roman Novikov. This is the main photograph of the stand. Below and to the right of the main photo are five photos of the awarding of blind sambo wrestlers, Vasily Shestakov and Roman Novikov are awarding the prize winners and winners. Further on the stand are shots of competitive fights. Standing and ground fighting of blind sambo wrestlers from Moldova and Venezuela. The referee raises the hand of the winner — he is Elder Moreno, a sambo wrestler in a blue uniform from Venezuela. Standing fight of sambo wrestlers from Georgia and Kazakhstan. A shot of a painful hold performed by a blind sambo wrestler in a red uniform from Moldova, Oleg Nemtan, his opponent is a sambo wrestler from Kyrgyzstan. At the bottom of the stand on the right is the inscription: «On October 20, 2023, as part of the World Combat Games in Saudi Arabia, in the city of Riyadh, the debut of the sambo discipline for the blind and visually impaired took place on the large international sports arena.» At the bottom of the stand on the left there is the text: “The competition was attended by SVI-1 class sambo wrestlers in the weight category up to 79 kg, who passed the selection in the open weight category up to 79 kg at the 2023 Asian and Oceanian Sambo Championships.”